The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-21

the rear, while the TWO Sch0OncrS
warped in from the sea and attacked
the shoreward side of the stronghold.
This new plan of attack required Us
To make still longer march. We set
abou: it, however, like good boys. aIri
with a will. and in the course of a
couple of hours penetrated for a mile
or more through the dense jungle. By
This time the morning had grown in
tcnSely hot. Lieutenant Somerville.
yho had accompanied me, was seized
with sudden nausea and tainted from
an attack much like sun-stroke. We
were all of Us bathed i'm perspiration
and covered with blood. too from
our scratched hands, arms and
shown the white feather SD far;
and after a timc. having got around
to the rear of the place where we sup
posed the pirates to be posted. | halted
my party To wait for the signai-gun
from the Greyhound. which | haj
been told to lay by for. The brush
Was 30 dense all about lis that we could
not see through it for any considerable
/ distance: AMI we had scarcely sat down
| III the grass. Ia wait for the >ignal-@un.
when. on It sudden. we heard noise
i'm our rear. Il cracking. swapping and
ru>tling, IL if Il large party were COM
Ing through the briar>.
Its the piratc>' They IT. conliE"i
| They We surrounded u.s. was the stimuli
tanenu> exclamation from nearly every
man in the detachment.
Il thought - myself. AMI instantly
gave the order to form in line and
make ready. From the noise. the en-
envy were apparently in Overwhelming"
force. They seemed To bc creeping
rapidly through the dense chaplrral.
and i'm line several hundred wards in
length. thought 10 myself that oar
last hour had surely come. To keep
up my OWN courage. begun Il mos;
spirited haran-IIc go my men.
STAND fast. bow | exclaimed
We can whip 'cm. You know they
are lot of STEAKS and c"wapl-.
Stand fat. aim low. ami give EN- culd
lead the instant they break through
the brush. Then 20 IT them with your
cutla>>c>!'
Il had hardly uttered these brave
words. when the foremost of the enemy
appeared amongst the briar>. not u
dozen wards AWAY. Al >i"ht of Them.
a shout rose then a roar uf laughter.
The supposed pirates were >cvera.
thousand hugc lamd-c~...'>. tearing
through the high grass anal briar> like
Il flock of sheep. 1t i Ne, Hess io >Iy
that did not continue Hv speech: in
fact. felt - cheap that could think
of nothing further TO say 1T ail beftting
the occasion.
The old marines lay cEucklimg in
the grass: and ROW and then | could
hear them eXhortim" carh ether Ia aim
low. but paid no attention 1" them.
We had not lain there murh longer. how
ever. before broal>id- from the vessels
crashed un the still air from the <,;l-
ward side: and then had the pleasure
of ordering my still >milin" command
toward In the attack. The rendezvous
of the frcehootpr> was about Il LITTLE,
landing AZ the foot Of some low bluffs.
with irregular. broken ground I'm the
rear. nearly impenctrable by reason Of
the thorn thickci> and rugged hedges.
The fire from our vessels soon
routed them out Of their position near
the landing place: and Immediately we
who were coming round in the rear be- /.
gan to get glimp>cS Of the fugitivcS, .
some of them carrying Great bundle, of
goods.
My fellows hlazcd away al these. !
but they lodged. doubled and cut away /
from IL by paths in the chapparal that |
we did not know Of: and though we
pushed forward a. vigorously a. we !
could. we only Succeeded in capturing !
one old fellow with lame leo. who |
also proved To Ice lcpcr. havin" large. {
Scaly. white patches of diseased tissue !
over his entire body. Di~dainin@ to
exhibit such a miserable object a. my /
prisoner babe him go in peace.
Pushing forward we came upon ,
the crest of BLUM. There, near the .
landing. Yet out Of sight from it. being .
hidden from view un the water side by
another crag, we found the stronghold .
of the pirates. from which they had .
just run away. Here were several long, /
low houses. where they lived. remote |
and concealed from the world. There /
were many boats. several of them new,
and great quantity of tiShing-tacklc. /
lie well Is saber>. guns and four cam
non. While recommending, one of my
men discovered a dark hole at the base
of the crag. We looked in. and then.
TO our surprise. found it Ia be the EN-
trance 10 an immense cave. full of
plumber of all kinds. taken from YES
sels which the pirates had captured.